Maritime Sword School

06/14/2026

The Moncton Highland Games 2026 Broadsword and Military Sabre tournament yesterday went off beautifully! Unfortunately due to weather we had to use our back up venue. With 51 registrations from as far away as Rimouski, the field was competitive, comradely and excellent.

We'll be posting a full event write up with information on the results for all four divisions. Until then, here are a few pictures of our fencers, most of the finalists and a big THANK YOU to all participants, organizers and our partners at the Moncton Highland Games

06/13/2026

It's raining in Moncton!

The Moncton Highland Games Tournament will be moved to the rain venue! We will be at 200 Karolie Road in Riverview!

Radar shows the weather moving past us by noon, and if we attack the day with enthusiasm we have the option of finishing at the games! We can also use the League App now!

Let's get to work and see if we can start fencing at 10 am, check in will sill start at 9, use the East entrance!

Bonne chance!

06/08/2026

A shoot out to all the sponsors that make the highland games possible!!!

We couldn't do this without you! Thank you to everyone who has helped make the 20th annual Greater Moncton Highland Games possible!

We kick things off Tuesday, June 9 with a Flag Raising & Free Community Concert with Prosser Brook in Victoria Park, City of Moncton / Ville de Moncton.

Then it's a Flag Raising and Free Community Concert with Dunnett Highland Dancers, Buschhaus Duo, & lupin at the Gazebo on the Riverfront in Town of Riverview on Wednesday.

Thursday finds us in Town of Salisbury for the Free Community Concert with RCMP Pipes & Drums and Sons of Gael at Highland Park.

Friday night you can purchase tickets to enjoy Scottish storytelling comedian Bruce Fummey at the Empress (at Théâtre Capitol Theatre).

And on Saturday, the gates are open at Hal Betts Sportsplex in Downtown Moncton Centre-ville (250 Assomption Blvd) for the 20th annual Greater Moncton Highland Games - with free entry, multiple competitions to watch, live music, vendors, & so much more! See you at the Games!

05/25/2026

We love getting to train with other clubs! Thanks for having us!

05/14/2026

No class Thursday May 14 in Moncton - la Salle is getting a little update! Class is on for Sunday!

05/12/2026

Registration is open for the Sabre/broadsword tournament at the Moncton highland games!

The registration form is here: https://forms.office.com/r/Vvu7iRGAHk

The Rules and details are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eNT789uaJWaSpRK8DgUEoXlS1lMMP4qx6GDh1YjvYWc/edit?usp=sharing

05/05/2026

No class Tuesday May 5 in Moncton due to instructor availability!

04/27/2026

Congratulations to King's Historical Fencing on successfully hosting their first open event! The Michael Defosses Memorial will be an Annual youth tournament and the very first one went great!

The standings in youth steel were:

Tennyson Delaney from MSS Moncton gold
Ian from NFA Halifax silver
Lucas Turcotte King's Historical MS Bronze

We love seeing more events in the region, and look forward to helping grow this memorial tournament for a dear friend in the years to come.

All the best all the competitors and organizers.

04/20/2026

We still have a few spots available for our next intro!! Message today to secure your spot!

04/13/2026

The MSS Spring Tournament is behind us and what a wonderful weekend it was! Time to get ready for the Moncton Highland Games on June 13th - registration for which is open to all!

Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered and to all the fencers who showed up to do their thing!!

We had some no shows, and on the day of we had 21 fencers in Longsword and 32 in Sabre for a total of 53 registrations that were able to complete their tournament!

I am also very pleased to announce that this tournament saw the most diverse placement from clubs in the region since we started running tournaments in Atlantic Canada - every single club had members in A and the spread of club membership of winners in all 4 divisions was the most varied we have ever been able to report!

Further, this was our first run of our tournament software, developed in house by our own Liam Nolan - we are very excited to start debuting a made in Atlantic Canada solution for tournament management - the system is designed to work with our ruleset while also exporting HEMA Ratings compatible data and further, is using a matching making algorithm for all match making - no more pools! The system was a massive success and we cannot wait to keep building on it - we truly believe that we are working on a system that is going to be extremely useful for organizations that share our values and are interested in our rule set. The system we are building is designed to scale to a place where anyone participating at events are going to be paired to the most relevant matches and are going to be seeded to the most relevant divisions for them as an individual fencer. I believe very strongly that we continue to push towards very good things for our region.

Imagine a fencing world where you show up to the tournament, even one with 80 fencers, and after qualifiers you, no matter what, go to an elimination bracket that is populated with other fencers of your skill level - A and B are great, we’ve been doing that since our third event, years ago, but they aren’t the future, we can do even more. Imagine divisions AAA, AA, A, B, C, D - etc. - we are going to be doing some very exciting things over the next couple of years.

By day two, the ‘pools’ (division seeding), hit a groove, we were able to run over 70 matches in three rings in just under two hours. Excellent throughput and a tremendous indicator of our system’s potential as it scales!

For Longsword we qualified 8 for A and 8 for B, they are listed in the order of their seeding, 1st at the top, 8th at the bottom:

Tier A Elimination Bracket

Brad Richardson - Crabs

Francois Dionne - MSS

Viktoria Allard - GEH

Brian LaMercier - MSS

Williame Field - MSS

Scott Gardiner - Kings

Peter Chiykowski - NFA

Xavier Sierra - GEH

Tier B Elimination Bracket

Nathaniel Maxner - Kings

Nicolas Panhout - MSS

Alena Slezneva - MSS

Michael Glazier - Crabs

Yehven Kistanov - MSS

Owen Kaiser - MSS

Elizabeth Ito - MSS

Andy Demerat - MSS

For Sabre/Broadsword we qualified 16 for A and 16 for B:

Tier A

Etienne Mermillod - MSS

Nathaniel Maxner - Kings

Peter Chiykowski - NFA

Cameron Ax - NFA

Chris Nelson - CRABS

Scott Gardiner - Kings

Nicolas Panhout - MSS

Brad Richardson - CRABS

Benjamin Hingley - Kings

Kyle Thompson - CRABS

Ryan Watson - CRABS

Jacquelin Cocharane - NFA

Patrick Hill - MSS

Xavier Sierra - GEH

Scott Makepiece - NFA

Devin Scullion-Labord - Kings

Tier B Sabre Elimination Bracket:

Andrew Jardine - MSS

Kayleigh Williams - CRABS

Kay Dingwell - MSS

SeungHun Kang - NFA

Lucas Turcotte - Kings

Jason Buote - MSS

John Bronn - CRABS

Sammy Lanyon - CRABS

Andrea Cole - MSS

Ayden Chen - NFA

Jordan MacLean - MSS

Benjamin Turcotte - Kings

Louisa Makula-Theriault - MSS

Catherine Kaiser - MSS

Marie Makula-Theriault - MSS

Elizabeth Ito - MSS

And Finally for winners, we have:

Longsword Tier A

Xavier Sierra - GEH

Francoise Dionne - MSS

Peter Chiykowski - NFA

Sabre Tier A

Etienne Mermillod - MSS

Brad Richardson - CRABS

Peter Chiykowski - NFA

Longsword Tier B

Nathaniel Maxner - Kings

Andy Demerat - MSS

Nicolas Panhout - MSS

Sabre Tier B

Ayden Chen - NFA

Lucas Turcotte - Kings

SeungHun Kang - NFA

Thank you again to all of our participants, both fencers and volunteers and see you again soon!